Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-25
NILLIONkIRES Tn EMBRYO
The Rich Men of tbs United States and
Their SpaCulations 49, Rufus
Hatch and His Turkeys.
G. p. HGsttHggcn's BHtler-Jsy G6uld's
Mouse craps and Maps-Fore-
paugh's TO- Cent Mensecr,e.
senator FsTwell At Eight Dollars Month
and whitelaw Reid st Five
Dollars week.
copyrighted 1887. By the Author ]
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TCopyright.d 1887. By the Author
So you want to be rich7
o course you do, my boy! There hiss
Deen hardly boy or a man since the
world began who has not wanted Just
this thing. But wanting and getting are
TWO different things and the getters are
few es the wanters ere many. Sill the
world never offered such opportunities
tor money making as it does now, and the
age of million6ires IS far as America is
concerned mas come to stay. We have
now $4,000 600 people bat we have O
country winch will support 10000
| We are growing ST the rate Of 1000 600 g
year, and we are the biggest manufacture
| ing and agricultural nation OF
this rich round earth. Still
we are but in our infancy, and
while we are growing to ten times our
present siz9 there will be always work
and money to spare. The early bird and
the all day bird will continue to catch the
worm Of wealth in your life time end
mine, IS il has done in those of our
fathers, and the paths to Efortune will be
| so PLAIN that he who runs may read them.
Don't growl at your circumstances and
your prospects. Your circumstances are
| better than the past ones CT many rich
man Of to-day, and whatever your pros
poets are low you are TO make what they
will be in the future.
Are you q farmers boy? P. T. Bsrsum,
| the millionaire Snowman plOughed corn
when he was your age for ten cents s day,
and after ne was twelve years of age
earned his own clothes. Senator j e
| Brown OF Georgia, the richest man in the
south, glad to make his first money
| by ploushing his Dejghbors' fields
with pair CT bull calves, and
Howe, the sewing machine millionaire,
sold butter and eggs from farm. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt began his life by farm
ing, and the boys who are now working
upon farms will do three-fourths of the
work CT the next generation.
Are you clerking in store?
Look at the number Of rich men who
have risen from clerkships to riches, and
compare their former salaries with yours.
See Wannamaker at Sl25 week. Dave
Sinton dishing cut sugar over an Ohio
counter for 81 8 month, and George W.
Childs an errand boy for q book seller at
a not much higher salary. You ere g
poor clerk indeed if you are not making
more now thsn these men did at your age,
and if you think your work is not full Of
possibilities, can show you other places
still worse out Of which have blossomed
millions.
How would you like to be bar tender?
Well! P. T. Barnum earned q salary
as a ar-tenGer in NiOlO's tbeater when
he nrst came to New York. Food, the
Californi. millionaire, kept a saloon on
Washington street in San Francisco dur
ing his earlier experiences in the west,
and yasssr sold beer and oysters during
q part of his career. Bsrnum's early life
was mixed up in speculstions of all kinds
He was book agent and was once the
proprietor of patent bear grease for the
hair, and be at one time owned
q grocery store. He was twenty-four
years OF age when he began speculation
IN shows and his first fFeak was the nurse
of George Washington, sn old pegress
whom he bought in Philadelphia for
$1,000 cash. She died seven months after
be bought her but by showing her In New
York he made enough to prove to himself
that there was millions in the business.
Since then he has spent fortunes in this
wsy, snd one OF his best investments was
the Jenny Lind concerts which srought
in S7l2,00 and which Melted BarnuM
more than half million in nine months
George I Seney's father was Meth
odist preacher snd Phil Armour was
bound out as boy and he got his en-
ployer to release him when he went to
| Cslifornia. Paul Tulane. the millionaire
philanthopist, who died year or so ago,
| leaving s fortune to number of colleges,
wes wears ego g merchant tailor in New
Orleans, and George Law, the great
bridge builder, who left SIP, 600 900
when he died in 1882 spent his life be-
tween eight and tWenty-one in milking
COWS snd working on farm His father
kept him st work for himself until he
was of sge and he began life with just
$40 which he had managed to save during
his time.
TIE story Of LAWS ficst earnings is i'd
teresting ard shows the spirit which
afterwards made bis fortune. He wss
looking for work in Troy, Y when he
saw 8 hod-csrrier fail from ladder up
which he was carrying load OF bricks
| The man broke his leg and Law at once
applied for his pace. He was given it
aud the foreman, as he SAW him totter
about with his hod on his shoulder, told
him he would be certain to break his
neck. Lsw said he rather feared such Ell
accident himself and his greatest anxiety
was that ne might fall before the day was
over and lose his wages. He did not,
however, sad received 81 after hard
DAYS work He kept on the next day
and the next, and WAS soon making 81 IS
a day. He continued to increase and by
lucky investment and hard work laid the
foundations for the fortune which he left.
Nest OF our rich men have been hard
workers, and those who have succeeded
have, like Law, taken the first thing that
came to hand and done it we'll. They
have adopted G)ethe's motto of doing
the thing that lies nearest them and of
doing it with their whole might. A. T.
Stewart, the millionaire dry goods mer-
chant, taught school as industriously as
he sold goods in after life, and he kept
his hard work up until he left this life for
the hands of the body-snstchers. Potter
Palmer formerly attended to his dry
goods store in Chicago as closely as he
now does his grand hotel, and "Lucky"
Baldwin worked hard, years. ago on his
fathers farm in Iadisra. Jim Keene
once drove a milk wagon in California
town. D. o. Mills kepta green grocery
and sm told borrowed the money with
which be went to California, and
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